The general district court erred by suppressing evidence in this animal cruelty case on the basis that the affidavit in support of the warrant did not establish probable cause. When read together, both the search warrant affidavit and the affidavit ...

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Plaintiff was traveling from her home in Lynchburg up to see family in Maryland when she was rear-ended in Fauquier County. Plaintiff declined medical attention at the scene despite a small laceration to her forehead. She presented to the emergency ...

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Where plaintiffs challenge an executive order requiring the use of a face mask in certain settings, injunctive relief is denied because plaintiffs are “not likely to succeed on the merits of their claim.” Background Plaintiffs are a winery and, Strother, ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Jeanette A. Irby Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiff was lawfully driving a 1993 Mack tractor-trailer while in the scope of his employment on southbound Route 29 in Fauquier County. At the same time and place, the defendant was driving a 2009 Chevy Silverado, also traveling southbound on ...

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Client, a 60-year-old licensed plumber, arrived at defendant’s farm to estimate the cost of installing water lines for cattle. When he arrived, the farmer was extracting a dead calf from a first-calf heifer with a rope attached to a farm ...

Tagged with: Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Diane McQuade Strick­land Million-Dollar Settlements Premises Liability

A neighbor of an elderly man who became friendly with him and offered to manage his personal affairs and assist with estate planning, and who then became trustee, attorney in fact and executor of trusts and of his holographic will, ...

Tagged with: Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker Wills & Trusts

This was a motor vehicle accident that occurred in Fauquier County. The defendant contended that he had been at Potomac Mills Mall window-shopping for hours, that he then met up with an old friend and they went to a barbecue. ...

Tagged with: Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker Million-Dollar Verdicts Wrongful Death

After defense lawyers argued prosecutors unfairly influenced a grand jury, a Fauquier County judge dismissed seven felony charges against a former attorney accused of misappropriating client money. Prosecutors then withdrew two felony charges of making false statements on tax returns. ...

Tagged with: Commonwealth's Attorneys Criminal Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge David H. Beck Loudoun County Circuit Court

Over husband’s objection, a Fauquier County Circuit Court can direct wife to satisfy an equitable distribution award by transferring to husband a 24 ½ percent interest in the family business, governed by the parties’ limited partnership agreement. Husband and wife ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey W. Parker Virginia Circuit Courts

A former client’s legal malpractice action against his bankruptcy lawyer is time-barred because the alleged act – persuading the client to sell his home to the lawyer, who later sold it at a profit – occurred after termination of the ...

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